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Psalm 119:154
Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
152Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH
153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
156Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.
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“Plead my cause” asks God to take up the speaker’s case, while the plea for renewed life rests on what God has promised.
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Psalm 35:1By David. Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.Both prayers ask God to take the speaker’s side in a conflict, with Psalm 35 naming those who contend and fight.
1 Samuel 24:15May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”Both use “plead my cause” to ask the LORD to intervene, linking his advocacy with a plea for deliverance.
Psalm 80:18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.Both ask God to revive those praying; Psalm 80 joins that request to calling on his name.
Micah 7:9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the …Both speak of God pleading a person’s cause; Micah’s speaker also names sin and the LORD’s indignation.
Jeremiah 50:34Their Redeemer is strong. The LORD of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the …Both link redemption with God pleading a cause; Jeremiah declares the Redeemer’s strength where the psalm asks for his help.
Psalm 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. VAVBoth ask God, “Revive me,” grounding the plea in his promise in verse 154 and his righteousness in verse 40.
Jeremiah 11:20But, LORD of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.Both bring a personal cause before the LORD; Jeremiah also speaks of God’s righteous judgment and vengeance.
Psalm 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!Both ask God to revive the speaker according to what he has spoken, using “your promise” and “your word.”
Proverbs 22:23for the LORD will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.Both describe the LORD pleading a case; Proverbs adds that he will take the lives of those who plunder.
1 John 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.The shared thread is advocacy: the psalm asks God to plead a cause, while John names Jesus as Counselor with the Father.
Jeremiah 51:36Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.The psalm asks God to plead the speaker’s cause; Jeremiah records God promising to plead a cause and take vengeance.
Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,Both direct a person’s cause to God: the psalm through a plea, and Job’s passage through a stated resolve.
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The plea comes from affliction, with no report of rescue yet. Even here, the speaker asks God for life on the strength of his promise.
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